IP Library Granted Patent US 12,424,840
Granted Patent B2
US 12,424,840 · App. 18/543,530 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Generator circuit breaker control method based on short-circuit fault current symmetry

Inventors: Fei Yang (Shaanxi, CN); Mingzhe Rong (Shaanxi, CN); Jinru Sun (Shaanxi, CN); Yifei Wu (Shaanxi, CN); Chunping Niu (Shaanxi, CN); Yi Wu (Shaanxi, CN); Jun Wang (Shaanxi, CN)
Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
H02H7/06H02H1/0007
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Patent No.
US 12,424,840
App. No.
18/543,530
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure discloses a generator circuit breaker control method based on short-circuit fault current symmetry. The method includes: collecting, by a control device, current on an outlet side of a generator 7 real time; calculating a transferring current feeding moment based on a current symmetry method when fault current rises to a peak value after a short-circuit fault occurs; correcting the transferring current feeding moment by a correction coefficient; and then calculating a breaker switching moment, thereby realizing precise control on a generator circuit breaker. The method mainly addresses the situation that the existing control method cannot effectively cope with the complexity of the short-circuit fault current on the outlet side of the generator, and fills the blank of the effective method for short-circuit control of the generator circuit breaker.

Claims (17)

1. A generator circuit breaker control method based on short-circuit fault current symmetry, comprising the following steps:

step 1, disposing a main branch and a transfer branch on a generator circuit breaker, setting a correction coefficient α based on simulation of a short-circuit fault on an outlet side of a generator and measured short-circuit current data, and setting an early switching time threshold ε, a transferring current value I zy and circuit breaker disconnection waiting time β according to requirements of the generator circuit breaker;

step 2, collecting current on the outlet side of the generator in real time, a short-circuit fault occurring to the outlet side of the generator at a moment T 0 ; when I N-1 <I zy <I N , capturing a moment at which a current value is equal to the transferring current value I zy at a current rising stage and recording the moment as a moment T 1 ; when I N′-2 <I N′-1 >I N′ , capturing a moment at which the short-circuit current rises to the peak value and recording the moment as a moment T 2 , collecting current on the outlet side of the generator by discrete means, and denoting the moment T 0 at which the short-circuit fault occurs to the outlet side of the generator as a 0 sampling point; I N-1 representing a current value at a (N−1)th sampling point, I N representing a current value at a N th sampling point, I N′-2 representing a current value at a (N′−2)th sampling point, I N′-1 representing a current value at a (N′-1)th sampling point, and I N′ representing a current value at a N′th sampling point; transforming discrete time coordinates into continuous time coordinates, to obtain T 1 ≈(N−1)□Δt+δ, T 2 ≈(N′−1)□Δt+δ, wherein Δt is a sampling interval;

step 3, starting to predict a transferring current feeding moment T 4 and a main branch early switching moment T 3 when a current peak value is collected, correcting the transferring current feeding moment T 4 by the correction coefficient α, wherein T 4 =α□(T 2 −T 1 )+T 2 , predicting the main branch early switching moment T 3 =T 4 −ε by the early switching time threshold ε, and calculating generator circuit breaker switching waiting time T wait ,

wherein T wait =T 3 −T 2 =α□(T 2 −T 1 )−ε, α is the correction coefficient; ε is the early switching time threshold; T 1 is the moment at which the short-circuit current rises to the transferring current value; T 2 is a short-circuit current peak value moment;

step 4, waiting for generator circuit breaker switching waiting time T wait after the short-circuit current peak value moment, and performing a circuit breaker switching command;

step 5, when the current drops to the transferring current I zy , feeding the transferring current through the transfer branch such that the short-circuit current on the main branch drops rapidly to 0 to realize rapid disconnection of the main branch; and

step 6, waiting for fixed time β after feeding the transferring current, and implementing disconnection of a fault circuit of the circuit breaker at a moment T 5 .

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein preferably, in step 1, the correction coefficient α is 0.85-1.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step 1, the correction coefficient α is 1 when the short-circuit fault current of the generator has an axisymmetric waveform.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step 1, the early switching time threshold ε is a minimum time threshold for successful disconnection of contacts of the generator circuit breaker, and the early switching time threshold ε is a constant value.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step 2, the current peak value is a current peak value in a first half wave.

6. The method according to claim 1 , in step 2, δ is 2/Δt.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transfer branch includes a current transferring and damping module.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the correction coefficient α is 0.9.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transferring current feeding moment T 4 is the moment at which a short-circuit current value is equal to the transferring current value I zy after the short-circuit current decreases from the peak value.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in step 5, the moment at which the transferring current is fed through the transfer branch is determined based on the moment at which the transferring current value is collected by the control device.

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